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pulled off their hats, and. opened their mouth no more: the rest stole out une after another. All that remained were quiet and attentive. Sun. 10.--I got a little time to see Mr. Dolman. Two years ago he seemed to be dying of an asthma ; being hardly able to rise at eight o’clock in the morning, after struggling as it were, for life. But from the time he came thither first, he rarely failed to be at the Foundery, by five o’clock. Nor was he at all the worse; his distemper being suspended, till within a very few days. I found him just on the’ wing. and full of love, and peace, and joy, in believing. And in the same spirit (as I afterward understood) he continued, till God took him te himself. _Mon. 11.--I went twice to Newgate at the request of poor R R , who lay there under sentence of death ; but was refused admittance. Receiving a few lines from him the day he was to die, I desired Mr. Richards to try if he could be admitted then. But he came back with a fresh refusal. It was above two years before, that, being destitute and in distress, he applied to me at Bristol for relief. I took him in, and employed him for the present, in writing, and keeping accounts for me. Not long after I placed him in the little school, which was kept by the United Society. There were many suspicions of him during that time, as well as of his companion, Gwillam Snowde ; but no proof appeared, so that, after three or four months, they quietly returned to London. But they did not deceive God, nor escape his nand. Gwillam Snowde was soon apprehended for a robbery, and, when condemned, sent for me, and said, nothing lay heavier upon him, than his having thus returned evil for good. I believe it was now the desire of poor R too, to tell me all that he had done. But the hour was past: I could not now be permitted to see or speak with him. So that he who before would not receive the word of God from my mouth, now desired what he could not obtain. And on Wednesday he fell a sacrifice to the justice of a long-offended God.